I want an ending thatโs satisfying. Iโm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I donโt like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.
Jeffrey EugenidesWe Greeks are a moody people. Suicide makes sense to us. Putting up Christmas lights after your own daughter does it--that makes no sense. What my yia yia could never understand about America was why everyone pretended to be happy all the time.โ -Mrs. Karafilis
Jeffrey EugenidesThe humming of my parents' voices from behind my bedroom wall, which throughout my childhood had filled me with a sense of security, had now become a source of anxiety and panic.
Jeffrey Eugenides